Total Arcade Racing News

The last few weeks have been amazing, and we've been throwing out updates faster than ever. Most additions have been suggestions from the community which makes us super happy.

[h2]Latest updates[/h2]
Since the last news post we've released 6 updates. Here are some of the highlights in the updates.

Harbor course
To test your skills as a Pro Arcade Racer we've added a new course where you race along the docks in a harbor. There is a pretty large risk that you'll fall into the water but don't worry, we've added a rescue feature that will pull your car out of the water again.



Achievements
Achievements is a feature that we said would be delivered during the Early Access and now it's been added to the game. We'd like more feedback in this area to answer questions like: how many achievements would you like, how hard should they be to unlock?



Car Hockey
A new wacky local multiplayer mode, Car Hockey, has been added with support for 8 players. In Car Hockey you compete in two Teams, Red vs Blue, and it's all about getting the puck into the goal using any means possible.



Keep the feedback coming either through the Steam forums or drop by our Discord Server to have a chat with us and the community.

[h2]Detailed change log[/h2]
v0.5.2
* New Course: Harbor
* New feature: Ability to land in water and respawn again.
* Fixed bug: Cars collided with cars even if they were flying.
* Fixed bug: Turbo start was not working with new count down system.
* Fixed bug: Lap timer was not working properly with new count down system.

v0.5.1
* New Feature: Added new achievement, Take a dip.
* Improved: Better count down before a race starts.
* Fixed Bug: The start field is too narrow on the bridge level causing texts to overlap.

v0.5.0
* New feature: Added option to disable ghost car replays in settings.
* Improved: Pace cars will start even if a race has been started once the download of the pace car data is completed. However there is a max limit of 10 seconds but that should provide sufficient time even for very bad internet connections.
* Improved: Added more flags.
* Improved: Improved performance in Endless mode.
* Improved: Added support for D-pad input on gamepads.
* Improved: Cars is now ordered in how many stars they require to unlock in the UI.
* Improved: Changed direction that cars or courses moves when you select them. Feedback was that it was moving in the wrong direction in regards to the input.
* Fixed Bug: White flag was shown when a user's country was missing, showing EU flag instead now.
* Fixed bug: In endless mode you could at times drive through AI cars.
* Fixed bug: When you start the game for the first time the pre-selected car was locked.
* Fixed bug: The help text for Next action was missing in course select if you didn't have a gamepad plugged in.
* Fixed bug: It was impossible to stop a race from starting once the AI had started to select cars in the main menu.
* Fixed bug: It was not possible to unlock stars in local multiplayer when racing with AI.

v0.4.9
* New Feature: Added new achievement, Driver license.
* New Feature: Added new achievement, Best of the best.

v0.4.8
* New Feature: Added support for Steam Achievements.
* Fixed bug: Steam service was not started properly at times.

v0.4.7
* New Feature: Car Hockey mode.
* Improved: Reduced audio of scraping SFX.
* Improved: Reduced Audio of car hit SFX.
* Fixed bug: It was not possible to drive on the grass in Demolition Derby.






Older changes can be found here

First of all, a big thanks to all of you who are playing Total Arcade Racing. An even bigger thanks goes out to the folks who have provided feedback, it's super important for us and the development of the game.

[h2]Price increase[/h2]
When we launched the Early Access version, we said that the price would periodically increase with new releases. We're not at version 0.4.6 and we've added a bunch of stuff since the initial launch. Therefor the price will be increased to 5.99$ on Monday the 19th of October. If you haven't already grabbed a copy at 4.99$ then make sure that you do it now.

[h2]Latest updates[/h2]
Since the last news post we've released 4 updates. Here are some of the highlights in the updates.

Mooaaare music tracks
Although the original single music track for Total Arcade Racing was very catchy, it got pretty annoying after you've heard it 20 times in a row. So, we've added a bunch of new tracks making it a total of 6 tracks!

Train crossing in Endless mode
Endless mode is a mode which needs a lot more work to become truly fun and challenging. A big step in this direction is the addition of a train crossing.



Time required for 3 stars
Several people have asked us what times is required to get 3 stars on various courses. We don't mind you asking but to be fair to everyone else we've added it to the UI.



Improved graphics and variation
We've added more details to each course to make it more interesting. This was also implemented in Endless mode.



Keep the feedback coming either through the Steam forums or drop by our Discord Server to have a chat with us and the community.

[h2]Detailed change log[/h2]
v0.4.6
* Improved: In endless mode changed UI to a pattern instead when you pass another players top distance.
* Improved: AI enhanced, cars will no longer try to reverse when stuck unless something is blocking them.
* Improved: Added more variation to different courses.
* Improved: Added more variation in endless mode.
* Fixed bug: Camera was very zoomed in at first when Endless mode starts.

v0.4.5
* New feature: Added times required for each star on the course select UI.
* Improved: Lowered the times required to earn stars a bit on certain courses.

v0.4.4
* New feature: Train Crossing in Endless mode.
* Improved: Performance improvements.
* Improved: Reduced how much time you get per time extension in Endless mode making it a bit harder.
* Fixed bug: AI detect car in front handler was not running if a car got re-spawned.

v0.4.3
* Improved: Added 5 new music tracks.
* Improved: Allow players to unlocks stars in multiplayer, so you can play with your friends and still progress to additional courses.
* Improved: Adjusted sfx audio levels from cars.
* Improved: Add restart button to multiplayer race.
* Fixed bug: Added parse check in leaderboard if downloaded data was corrupted.
* Fixed bug: Finish line was detected too early on Folding Woods level.
* Fixed bug: It was possible to scroll in Hall of fame while the score was downloading causing the center of player score to fail.
* Fixed bug: When you scroll the Hall of fame the first time jumps to position 1.

Older changes can be found here

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Its been a month since we released Total Arcade Racing on Steam Early Access.

Our goal with the Early Access release was to get feedback from actual players who like arcade racing games, and boy did you guys deliver! We've gotten a lot of suggestions how to make the game better and a few bug reports, actually a lot fewer than we expected.

The top request feature was the ability to be able to run Total Arcade Racing in window mode. In the v0.4.2 release we added support for this and the ability to change the resolution which the game runs at.
While working on this we realized that a number of things was not working that good unless you played the game in wide screen mode (16:9) so we worked hard to improve the overall experience regardless of the aspect ratio you use.



The 2nd most frequent requested feature was the ability to view the Hall of fame from the main menu to check that you still have that awesome #1 position. This was added with the v0.4.1 release with a bunch of additional improvements related to Hall of fame.



The progress when it comes to new content and game modes have been slower than planned. We hope to pick up the pace and deliver faster in the future.

Keep the feedback coming either through the Steam forums or drop by our Discord Server to have a chat with us and the community.

[h2]Detailed change log[/h2]
v0.4.2
* New feature: Added settings option to toggle between full screen and windowed mode.
* New Feature: Added setting to change resolution.
* Improved: Country selection improved.
* Improved: UI scales better with different resolutions and aspect ratios.

* Fixed Bug: When running a screen resolution other than 16:9 then parts of the main menu background was sometimes visible while playing.

v0.4.1
* New feature: Added leaderboard on main menu so you can browse through the different hall of fames.

* Improved: Added option to race with bots in single player mode.
* Improved: Made it a little bit easier to get stars.
* Improved: Hall of fame added upload/download re-try feature.
* Improved: Hall of fame scrolling improved.

* Fixed Bug: Endless mode had a weird issue with overlay drawing when starting the level.

Great news! Total Arcade Racing is out on Steam Early Access. It’s a big milestone in the development and we’re excited to work closer together with the community in the development of this game.

During the Early Access stage of development we will add more courses, cars, achievements and probably new game modes. We are excited to get your feedback and suggestions which will have a big impact on the development of the game. We are certain that you have ideas that we have not even though of. The price will increase over time as we add more content so if you like this game we recommend that you buy it early.

What happened to the demo version? As we’ve entered into Early Access we decided to scrapped the demo as it was already outdated and keeping two versions of the game updated takes a lot of effort which slows down the development. Once the game is completed and fully release we might do a demo version again, we’ll see.

The main discussion forum is our Discord Server but we’ll also use Steam Forums.

Hey there!

We'll be hosting a little AMA session on Total Arcade Racing during the Steam Game Festival, check out the Steam Page for more information on the game but here is a little glimpse of the action in the game.




Join us during the Steam Game Festival on Discord: https://discord.gg/AyYtKXT

Starts 7 PM CET, 1 PM EST, 10 AM PDT on the 16 of June
We'll be doing an AMA-style chat where you can ask any questions you like about the game, game development or ANYTHING you want!